Table of Contents

List of illustrations; 1. Settlement mobility and the 'Middle Saxon shift': rural settlements and settlement patterns in Anglo-Saxon England H. F. Hamerow; 2. Adultery in early Anglo-Saxon society Theodore John Rivers; 3. The Liudhard medalet Martin Werner; 4. The Werden 'Heptateuch' B. C. Barker-Benfield; 5. The uncarpentered world of Old English poetry Earl R. Anderson; 6. The use of modal verbs in complex sentences: some developments in the Old English period Hiroshi Ogawa; 7. Anonymous polyphony and The Wanderer's textuality Carol Braun Pasternack; 8. The geographic list of Solomon and Saturn II Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; 9. Latin learning at Winchester in the early eleventh century: the evidence of the Lambeth Psalter Patrick P. O'Neill; 10. Poetic language and the Paris Psalter: the decay of the Old English tradition M. S. Griffith; 11. A new Latin source for the Old English 'Three Utterances' exemplum Mary F. Wack and Charles D. Wright; 12. Wulfstan's De Antichristo in a twelfth-century Worcester manuscript J. E. Cross; 13. A pair of inscribed Anglo-Saxon hooked tags from the Rome (Forum) 1883 hoard James Graham Campbell, Elisabeth Okasha and Michael Metcalf; 14. Bibliography for 1990 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes; Index to volumes 16-20.

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